This is a great variation of a christmas photo. Classic winter scene up north of the northern lights.
you're very lucky and fortunate to have witnessed this very rare natural occurance.
Cheers
Merry Xmas
Craig

Good evening, Jean,
What a great spectacle you witnessed!
Beautiful colours and great sparkling stars! The shapes of the lights look like gigantic birds to me, flying over the Arctic! But your interpretation as garlands suits me perfeclty, as the day on which you took this shot has a special meaning in my private calendar and garlands suit it quite fine ;-)
Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful Christmas,
Dasha

i remember when I was a kid, I saw the Northern light several times during winter, nowadays it is completely gone..!
A rare phenomenon that not everybody is given the opportunity to see and photograph...

Hello Jean,
You're a lucky man to witness this magical moment, an exerience of a life time. I sure love to see it for myself one day. To capture it in photo this beautifully is just fantastic. Love the twinkling lights of the stars too. Beautiful and magical, like a dream come true.
Way

Hi Jean,
The greenery aurora make the cold view not really lonely, congratulation you are lucky to capture this natural phenomenon, distinct photo in natural color and lighting to show the dim environment, well done.
~ Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2010 ~
Ally

Hi Jean,
I have seen the previous one, but I guess this is a place and subject where I would spend a lot of time and memory card as well.
The patterns on the sky are fantastic.
Here I like especially the starts visible clearly through the lights.
TFS
M

I am grateful for this sensational view that we can all experience vicariously. Your photo of the the Aurora Borealis is better than any I've seen from professional photographers. The 15-second exposure has revealed not only the lights, but the silhouette of the forrest. The time is just long enough to reveal also that the stars appear slightly stretched, am impression created by the rotation of the earth.

I wish you and your family a belated Merry Christmas and a New Year marked by health, happiness and prosperity.

Hi Jean, A brilliant shot of the most famous northern lights, you really have captured them well with the green sitting beautifully in the blue sky & the silhouette of the trees forming a wonderful base to the photo, kind regards Wilson, Happy New Year.

I can never get enough of the Northern Lights .. wonderful flowing waves through the sky .. great color at night .. wonderful image. such a unique and beautiful effect .. well captured .. take care, John

So many great shots in your portfolio to choose from - but this one caught my eye today. Beautiful, bleak foreground with a magical sky above. So that is what the Northern lights look like. A perfect TE shot.

This is an instant favourite! I have wanted to capture the aurora borealis and hopefully one day my wish will come true.

Great focusing of the stars. You have managed to avoid long star trails. I feel the background could have been made a little sharper. But nonetheless, this is a fantastic picture and well worth the effort to brave the cold.